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oblong

UK /ˈɒblɒŋ/US /ˈɑblɔŋ/

adjective 3
noun 3
verb 2
forms 5

adjective3

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Having a length and width that are different; not square or circular.
- The room was quite dark. The oblong window showed the night sky pricked here and there with stars. — 1967
•
Roughly rectangular or elliptical.
- Plant upright spreading hardy, vigorous and productive; berry, oblong, round, medium size, sweet but rather ideipid. — 1902
•
Having the horizontal axis of a page longer than the vertical; In landscape orientation.
- Of the smaller oblong formats, none is specifically designated for music. — 1971

noun3

•
Something with an oblong shape.
- They sat at the tables—I suppose you know how they are arranged, as a sort of hollow oblong, with the auctioneer at one end and the attendant showing the coins up and down in the middle? — 1927
•
A rectangle with length and width that are different.
- Jessamy looked round her in a puzzled way, but there was nothing to see but the pale oblong of what looked like a star-pierced sky behind the bars of the nursery window. — 1967
An ellipse with minor and major axes that are different.

verb2

To extend so as to form an oblong shape.
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To give an oblong shape to.
- A. Why, by dropping them off of cars or dropping them off of trucks or some way it would oblong them . — 1928

forms

oblonged · oblonging · oblongs · more oblong · most oblong

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